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On my fence…

On my front fence a week ago…

three sulphur-crested cockatoos

sulphur-crested cockatoos

 

I’ve messed about with my camera settings (Nikon D3000), the light was poor, and my front window glass was grubby.

 

pair rainbow lorikeets

rainbow lorikeets

 

I think I had the camera on freeze action so I could get the softer background. I’m almost ready to begin full manual control – then I will have only myself to blame.

 

one cockatoo confronted by two lorikeets

you don’t scare me … much

 

Thanks for looking.

I hope you have a good day!   🙂

 

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Birds

A typical autumn walk

Here is a slideshow of my walk with Vika this morning. I took 119 photos with the Nikon D3000 DSLR. I’m showing you seventeen.
If you want to see any of the images larger, simply pause the slideshow, right click, and select ‘view image’. I’ve kept the quality down since there are so many.

(START) cows and kangaroos from the highway
galahs arrived, waiting for seed
walking along the service road
magpie
magpie
flying magpie
the wattlebird followed us
powerful owl in oak tree
owl sizing up my dog
neighbours’ sheep
kangaroos’n cows from the lane
kanagroos ‘n cows
heading back home
flying cockatoos
two flying magpies
did someone say pusscat? (cat sunning on a bin)
what took you so long (END)

Seeing the owl is becoming typical. Apparently owls will intermittently return to the same roosts for several years. Once the leaves fall from the oak, I suppose it will seek a better place. This one was staring pretty intently at Vika, as if sizing her up for its next meal. They can take down quite big prey and would tackle Vika quite easily! Vika had her tail between her legs, so maybe she knew it was up there … or she maybe she saw a cat.

Thanks for looking, have a nice day.

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two rainbow lorikeets
Birds

On my front fence

I’ve hunted the neighbour’s cat away from the back of the house, and out front,  many times. This is what it does when I’m not home, no doubt! Just now, there it was sitting as calm as you please, cheeky blighter!  I banged on the window and it went.

 

fluffy cat on my fence

 

I’ve noticed when the birds land, they look over the fence to see if the cat is hiding in the geraniums.  If it comes while they eat, one or two of the cockatoos will screech at it. I never see maimed birds or little piles of feathers about, so the sparrows and honey-eaters must know to watch out for it by now.

 

two rainbow lorikeets

 

I love it when the rainbow lorikeets let me get close to them! Photographed with the Nikon D3000 DSLR, earlier in the week.

 

lorikeets

 

Thanks for looking. I hope you are having a great weekend! 🙂

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